Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

Edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Adrian Pearce

Description

How did racism evolve in different parts of the Portuguese-speaking world? How should the impact on ethnic perceptions of colonial societies based on slavery or the slave trade be evaluated? What was the reality of inter-ethnic mixture in different continents? How has the prejudice of white supremacy been confronted in Brazil and Portugal? And how should we assess the impact of recent trends of emigration and immigration? These are some of the major questions that have structured this book. It both contextualises and challenges the visions of Gilberto Freyre and Charles Boxer, which crystallised from the 1930s to the 1960s, but which still frame the public history of this topic. It studies crucial issues, including recent affirmative action in Brazil or Afro-Brazilian literature, blackness in Brazil compared with Colombia under the dynamics of identity, recent racist trends in Portugal in comparative perspective, the status of native people in colonial Portuguese Africa, discrimination against forced Jewish converts to Christianity and their descendants in different historical contexts, the status of mixed-race people in Brazil and Angola compared over the longue durée, the interference of Europeans in East Timor's native marriage system, the historical policy of language in Brazil, or visual stereotypes and the proto-ethnographic gaze in early perceptions of East African peoples. The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating contributions from history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies. It offers a radical updating of both empirical data and methodologies, and aims to contribute to current debates on racism and ethnic relations in global perspective.

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

Edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Adrian Pearce

Table of Contents

Introduction, Francisco BethencourtParti I. Present Issues 1: . Colour and Race in Brazil: From Whitening to the Search for Afro-Descent, António Sérgio Guimarães 2: Brazil and Colombia: Comparative Race Relations in South America, Peter Wade 3: Racism: An Evolving Virus, Jorge Vala and Cícero Pereira 4: Mulattos in Brazil and Angola: A Comparative Approach, Seventeenth to Twenty-First Centuries, Luiz Felipe de AlencastroPart II. The Modern Framework 5: Charles Boxer and the Race Equivoque, João de Pina-Cabral 6: Gilberto Freyre and Brazilian Self-Perception, Maria Lucia Pallares-Burke 7: Writing from the Margins: Towards an Epistemology of Contemporary African Brazilian Fiction, David Brookshaw 8: Indigenato Before Race? Some Proposals on Portuguese Forced Labour Law in Mozambique and the African Empire (1926-62), Michel Cahen 9: The 'Civilisation Guild': Race and Labour in the Third Portuguese Empire, ca. 1870-1930, Miguel JerónimoPart III. The Long View 10: Marriage Traps: Colonial Interactions with Indigenous Marriage Ties in East Timor, Ricardo Roque 11: The Free Afro-Brazilians in a Slave Society, Herbert Klein 12: . The 'General Language' and the Social Status of the Indian in Brazil, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Andrea Daher 13: The New Christian Divide in the Portuguese-Speaking World (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries), José Pedro Paiva 14: From Marco Polo to Manuel I of Portugal: The Image of the East African Coast in the Early Sixteenth Century, Jean Michel Massing

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

Edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Adrian Pearce

Author Information

Edited by Francisco Bethencourt, Charles Boxer Professor, King's College London, and Adrian Pearce, King's College London

Contributors:

Luiz Felipe de Alencastro is Professor of the History of Brazil at the Université de Paris, Sorbonne. Francisco Bethencourt is Charles Boxer Professor of History at King's College London. David Brookshaw is Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Bristol. Michel Cahen is Senior Researcher at the Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires et Comparatistes 'Les Afriques dans le Monde', Bordeaux University. Andrea Daher teaches at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she also coordinates the Research Laboratory of History of Literacy Practices. Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães is Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Chair at the Institute d'Études Politiques at the University of Bordeaux. Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and Visiting Professor at Brown University. Herbert S. Klein is Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Jean Michel Massing, FSA, is Professor in History of Art and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. José Pedro Paiva is Professor at Coimbra University and a researcher at the Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura (FCT). Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke was Professor at the University of São Paulo and is now an associate of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Adrian Pearce lectures in Latin American History at King's College, London, where he is a member of both the Department of History and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, & Latin American Studies. Cicero Pereira is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. João de Pina-Cabral is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and Director of the journal Análise Social. Ricardo Roque is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Jorge Vala is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.